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Census of State Adult Correctional Facilities, 1979 (ICPSR 7852)

Principal Investigator(s):
United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. Bureau of Justice Statistics

Summary:

This census, designed by the Bureau of Justice Statistics
and conducted by the United States Census Bureau, includes
all state correctional facilities known to the Census Bureau in 1979.
Each facility is classified into one of ten categories such as
community center, prison farm, road camp, or reception center. Data
for 1979 include number of inmates by security classification and by
sex, number of full- and part-time staff, number of paid and volunteer
staff broken down by position, age, pay, and education, number and age of
facilities, type of facilities provided in each cell by size of cell,
hospital facilities available, programs provided for the inmates, job
training, and inmate IQ scores.

This census, designed by the Bureau of Justice Statistics
and conducted by the United States Census Bureau, includes
all state correctional facilities known to the Census Bureau in 1979.
Each facility is classified into one of ten categories such as
community center, prison farm, road camp, or reception center. Data
for 1979 include number of inmates by security classification and by
sex, number of full- and part-time staff, number of paid and volunteer
staff broken down by position, age, pay, and education, number and age of
facilities, type of facilities provided in each cell by size of cell,
hospital facilities available, programs provided for the inmates, job
training, and inmate IQ scores.

Dataset(s)

Study Description

Citation

U.S. Dept. of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics. CENSUS OF STATE ADULT CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES, 1979. Conducted by U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. 2nd ICPSR ed. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producer and distributor], 1997. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07852.v2

Universe:
State adult correctional facilities in 1979 in the United
States.

Data Type(s):
census/enumeration data

Methodology

Data Source:

self-enumerated questionnaires

Extent of Processing: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of
disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major
statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to
these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

Standardized missing values.

Performed recodes and/or calculated derived variables.

Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.

Version(s)

Original ICPSR Release: 1984-03-18

Version History:

2005-11-04 On 2005-03-14 new files were added to one
or more datasets. These files included additional setup files as well
as one or more of the following: SAS program, SAS transport, SPSS portable,
and Stata system files. The metadata record was revised 2005-11-04 to
reflect these additions.

1997-02-13 SAS data definition statements are now available
for this collection and the SPSS data definition statements have been
updated.

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